HomeMy WebLinkAbout1979-265 CCRMember Tony Kuefler introduced the following resolution and
moved its adoption:
RESOLUTION NO. 79 -265
RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING AGREEMENT WITH OPTIMUM SYSTEMS INCORPORATED
FOR PROTECTION OF TRADE SECRETS
WHEREAS, the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, is a member of Local
Government Information Systems LOGIS), a joint powers organization of local
Minnesota government units formed pursuant to Minnesota Statutes, Section 471.59;
and
WHEREAS, LOGIS has entered into an agreement with Optimum Systems Incor-
porated (OSI), a California corporation, effective as of August 23, 1978, and
entitled "Local Government Management Information System Agreement, Contract No.
2027" (hereinafter referred to as the "contract whereunder LOGIS contracted
to purchase from OSI certain items of computer hardware and software which, if
accepted by LOGIS under the contract, will be employed by LOGIS for the benefit
of its members, including the City of Brooklyn Center, in providing economical
data processing services to the members of LOGIS; and
WHEREAS, under the terms of the contract, particularly Section 4.01(a)
thereof, each member of LOGIS is required to execute a written statement, to be
effective upon acceptance of the property under the contract, which runs in favor
of both LOGIS and OSI and which embodies the terms and conditions of Paragraphs
4.01(c) through 4.01(h) of the contract:
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Brooklyn Center, Minnesota,
as follows:
1. (4.01(c)) The City acknowledges and agrees throughout the duration
of the contract that, as between OSI and LOGIS, title and full owner-
ship rights to the GEMUNIS /3000 System and all components thereof
delivered to it remain with OSI. The City further acknowledges and
agrees that the GEMUNIS /3000 System and all components thereof, inclusive
of the ideas and expressions therein contained, are valuable trade secrets
and proprietary information of OSI, whether or not any portion thereof
is or may be validly copyrighted or patented. The City covenants that
it will not make use of the GEMUNIS /3000 System, directly or indirectly,
for the benefit of any party which is not a member of LOGIS, or which
has not executed a written statement satisfactory to OSI under the con-
tract embodying the substance of the covenants hereof as required by
Section 4.01(a) of the contract.
2. (4.01(d)) The GEMUNIS /3000 System and all information related thereto,
in whatever form imparted to LOGIS or the City by OSI in connection with
OSI's performance under the contract, will be deemed confidential and
proprietary to OSI, will be held in trust and confidence by the City,
and will be safeguarded by the City to the same extent that the City
safeguards its proprietary material, which in no event will be less than
that which a reasonably prudent governmental unit would exercise under
similar circumstances. To those ends, the City agrees to take reasonable
steps necessary to ensure that the GEMUNIS /3000 System and all information
related thereto are not made available by the City or by any of its agents,
servants, and employees to any other person, firm, or entity, except as
permitted by the contract. The City further agrees to take reasonable
steps necessary to ensure that all those above -named individuals having
access to the GEMUNIS /3000 System will observe and perform the obligations
hereby undertaken by the City.
RESOLUTION NO. 79 -265
3. (4.01(e)) LOGIS may modify any computer program comprising the GEMUNIS/
3000 System. All such modifications will be deemed an amendment to the
license granted by the contract and subject to all terms and conditions
of said license, and, only for the purposes of such license, those modi-
fications will be deemed a part of the GEMUNIS /3000 System as defined in
the contract.
4. (4.01(f)) The City will reproduce and include OSI's copyright notice
wherever it appears on copies, in whole or in part, in any form, including
partial copies and modifications, of the computer programs and other mat-
erials comprising the GEMUNIS /3000 System, inclusive of, but not limited
to, documents and the manuals delivered under the contract.
5. (4.01(g)) To the extent that the City modifies any document or manual
delivered to it relating to the GEMUNIS /3000 System pursuant to the
contract, or incorporates any information from a document or manual
delivered to it pursuant to the aforementioned license into a publication
originating with the City for dissemination by the City, then, and in
such event, the City will first comply with the provisions of Paragraph
4.01(f) of the contract, as embodied in Paragraph 4 of this Resolution,
and the City will disseminate such document only to its agents, servants,
or employees.
6. (4.01(h)) The City will indemnify and hold OSI harmless against any
losses, damages, costs, expenses, claims, or actions resulting from or
arising out of any use not authorized by the license granted in the con-
tract of the computer programs and /or materials comprising the GEMUNIS/
3000 System by the City, by any agent, servant, or employee of the City,
or by any other person who obtains access through the City to the computer
programs and materials licensed to the City.
7. The City makes the foregoing covenants, which run to the benefit of LOGIS
and to
OSI, in fulfillment of
the City's obligation under the
contract,
and effective as of the date
provided therein.
November 5, 1979
Date
Mayor
ATTEST: 2_
L
Clerk
The motion for the adoption of the foregoing resolution was duly seconded by member
Gene Lhotka and upon vote being taken thereon, the following
voted in favor thereof: Dean Nyquist, Tony Kuefler, Bill Fignar, Gene Lhotka,
and Celia Scott;
and the following voted against the same: none,
whereupon said resolution was declared duly passed and adopted.